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ttmtmu’s  Ifoarb  uf  fHtsmuna  cf  ll]p  3nirruu* 

MfltuuiiiUKicwaiiuiiiiaiiB<u;uiiiMiM!iiuniiuifl»unuuiiM^ 


Smfrn?nm-l?ranatnirtton 

(goal 

1920 


A great  organization  is  that,  the  Congregational  women  of  these 
1 7 Interior  States,  banded  together  in  branches,  associations,  auxiliaries 
imiUBMirai:: •. m ::t.. ..  * -i  a host  of  Women, 

W B M I ^ great  purpose  is  theirs  to  send  their  Master 

’ ’ ’ * | Jesus  Christ — their  best  friend,  their  Savior,  to  hope- 

| less  women  the  whole  world  around. 

HOW  DO  THEY  DO  IT? 

They  send  their  daughters  from  their  homes  in  this  beloved  land 
to  live  among  the  ignorant  women  who  are  black;  the  purdah  women 

r „„„ who  are  brown;  the  bound  women  who  are  yellow; 

| the  harem  done-to-death  women  of  Turkey. 

j Daughters  j What  do  they  do,  these  daughters? 

They  take  the  dirty,  ragged,  sick  women,  girls 
and  children  and  make  them  well  again. 

They  take  the  women  and  the  children,  ignorant  beyond  our  thought 
and  lo!  they  read  and  write  and  think  from  kindergarten  on  through 
High  School  and  then  college. 

They  take  the  women  and  the  children  and  on  the  Sabbath  day — 
in  church — they  show  them  God. 

They  take  the  women  and  show  them  how  to  make  a home  where 
love  and  peace  and  joy  may  dwell. 

Hospitals,  Schools,  Churches,  Heme — and  countries  which  were 
dark  begin  to  see  a light  that  is  clear. 

They  send  their  daughters  forth  to  carry  out  the 
last  command  of  Christ;  they  cannot  go  and  so  they 
send. 

It  costs  $126,000  every  year.  It  cost  that 
amount  before  the  war,  but  now  it  is  barely  half  enough. 

WHAT  CAN  BE  DONE? 

ANOTHER  FUND -IT  IS  THE  ONLY  HOPE 

A RECONSTRUCTION  GOAL 

$75,000.00 


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Daman's  IlaariJ  of  fHtsslons  of  tlj?  Sntrrior 

onmiiiiiuuiuiiitutijiiiuiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifii]i!ii]iiiiii:iiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiioifiiiiijiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiii4iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiin:u!ii!iiimiiiiiiiiiii!ii!iiiiiiiiuiiiiiiim  : , , < , 

It  was  June,  1919,  the  Central  Turkey  Mission  came  together  for 
their  Annual  Meeting,  the  first  one  in  five  long  weary  persecuting,  devas- 
tating years  of  war.  Churches,  schools — what  a con- 
dition they  were  in — Turkish  soldiers  had  done  their 
worst  to  ruin  the  buildings;  ministers  were  killed; 
people  scattered;  girls  in  harems,  far  worse  than  death 
for  these  lovely  girls,  enduring  in  a stolid  way  what 
came,  ambition  gone,  filthy,  loveless,  no  hope,  one 
wave  of  terror  followed  by  a fear  far  worse. 

Their  loved  friends  and  leaders  the  missionaries,  reduced  in  num- 
bers, two  had  died,  others  gone  on  compulsory  furlough,  some  too 
exhausted  to  make  the  journey,  no  new  recruits  had  come.  Only  Ten 
missionaries  present  at  that  annual  meeting  June,  1919,  when  in  normal 
times  before  the  war  40  or  50  would  have  assembled. 

Only  ten  people,  what  could  they  do?  How  could  they  plan — 
churches  must  be  reorganized;  ministers  must  be  found;  schools  must 
be  opened,  two  colleges,  four  boarding  schools;  finances  must  be  ad- 
justed— money  was  only  one-fifth  its  former  (before  the  war)  value; 
adjustments  must  be  made  with  the  relief  work;  the  morale  of  the  people, 
how  could  it  be  once  more  restored? 

The  great  industrial  work,  what  plans  for  that?  The  Moslem  people 
asking  for  our  Christ.  How  could  He  be  given  to  them? 

The  training  of  the  Armenians — the  forgiving  Armenians — for  such 
a work — how  could  it  all  be  done? 

What  could  they  do,  those  ten  people! 

They  asked  for  $1056  to  repair  (put  in  new  floors,  glass,  windows, 
plaster  walls),  and  equip  (dishes,  beds,  tables,  desks,  books,  every- 
thing). Six  village  schools,  $176  for  each  school!  $792  to  pay  the 
salaries  of  six  Bible  Women — $132  a year  for  each!!  $1267.20  salary 
for  each  missionary!!! 

What  would  the  full  Reconstruction  Goal  of  $75,000  do? 

Turkey’s  share  for  this  one  need  would  be 
not  $1056  for  the  schools,  but  only  $528; 
not  $792  for  the  Bible  Women,  but  only  $396; 
not  $1267.20  for  missionary’s  salary,  but  only  $847. 
$75,000.00  and  that  too  small! 

But  with  this  share,  these  schools,  and  Bible  Women  and  mission- 
aries would  gather  orphan  children  by  the  thousands  from  their  most 
unbelievable  surroundings,  where  they  are  dazed  and  sad  and  hurt  in 
body,  mind  and  spirit,  and  give  them  a chance  to  grow  well  and  strong 
again  where  there  are  flowers  and  trees,  kindergartens,  industrial  schools 
and  loving  hearts  which  say  “This  is  your  home — I’ll  be  your  mother 
now.’’ 

Missionaries  who  have  lived  there  forty  years  say  they  have  never 
known  a year  that  can  equal  this  past  one  in  misery,  resulting  from 

rimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimniini.  drought,  famine,  influenza  which  carried  off  millions, 
| the  war  which  took  its  toll  of  tens  of  thousands,  the 
India  § resultant  high  prices  which  have  left  the  masses  with 
I one  meal  a day  this  year,  where  they  had  perhaps 

Nttiutiiitiiiiittiiumuiiuiiiuiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiii  f-^y-Q 


Turkey 

| Their  Cadi — 
I Our  Answer 




Homan’a  Saarti  nf  fEUsatmia  uf  jJntcriar 

miiiniiuinitiiiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiwiitiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitimiiiiiiiuiiimiiiiiiuiiim^ 


Last  year  the  rate  of  exchange  was  three  rupees  to  a dollar;  this 
year  a dollar  brings  but  two  rupees. 

Our  daughters  face  the  necessity  of  increasing  salaries  of  Christian 
workers — with  no  source  of  revenue  for  that  increase.  The  people 
cannot  exist  on  what  they  did  before.  They  ask,  instead  of  an  increase 
in  their  own  salaries,  money  to  increase  the  salaries  of  their  workers. 
Otherwise  trained  Christian  workers  must  go  into  government  employ 
where  they  can  get  living  wages.  In  order  to  help,  one  of  our  very  own 
daughters  has  dropped  her  insurance. 

Vast  areas  are  left  to  the  supervision  of  two  women.  Villages  are 
asking  for  schools.  Thousands  are  asking  for  baptism — but  there  are 
not  preachers  or  teachers  to  give  them.  Boarding  schools  are  crowded 
beyond  twice  their  capacity.  Weary  doctors  await  relief  before  they 
can  take  their  furlough,  long  overdue.  Schools  that  have  long  since 
ceased  to  be  adequate  demand  expansion.  A few  dollars  a month 
would  keep  a Bible  woman  for  missionaries  who  cannot  multiply  them- 
selves so  they  can  touch  the  “reaching  hands.’’ 

$75,000.00  the  full  Reconstruction  Goal! 

That  India  may  have  her  part. 

The  eyes  of  all  the  world  today  are  fixed  on  that  Island  Empire 
which  by  leaps  and  bounds  has  forged  ahead  in  the  last  sixty  years, 

iMiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiMiniiiiiiiimmMiiimiiiiimiiiiii^  prospering  in  a material  way  which  has  surprised  all. 
1 I 


Japan 


luuiniiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiitiiiniiniiiiiniiuuiiiiiuiniiiii 


Her  educational  training  is  of  the  very  best,  her 
military  power  great,  her  ships  in  all  waters,  her  ambi- 
tions unlimited. 


“But  her  atrocities  in  Korea,  her  grabbing  of  Shantung,”  have  been 
the  disappointment  of  her  friends.  Her  testing  time  has  come.  It  looks 
as  if  she  had  failed  in  that  which  was  highest  and  best. 

We  who  have  sent  our  daughters  there  look  in  our  own  hearts  and 
ask  the  question — 

Do  we  really  care?  Have  we  in  years  past  bent  every  energy  in 
our  power  to  make  Japan  a Christian  nation?  Have  we  desired  above 
all  else  to  give  her  a better  life? 

Will  we  pay  the  price  for  schools  and  pastors  — teachers  and 
churches? 

The  salaries  of  the  missionaries  are  the  same  as  twenty  years  ago, 
although  the  price  of  living  is  four  times  as  great  as  in  normal  times. 

Some  fear  they  must  resign  because  they  cannot  live  on  what 
they  have. 

One  Christian  Japanese  teacher  wrote:  “We  are  barely  living — in 

an  uncomfortable  house,  simple,  coarse  food,  old  clothes — but  we  are 
thankful  for  these.  We  have  had  to  take  one  of  our  children  out  of 
the  kindergarten,  as  we  cannot  afford  to  keep  her  there;  we  do  not  know 
how  we  can  educate  our  children.” 

College,  that  great  Christian  educational  center  wielding  a 
influence  on  the  womanhood  of  the  nation,  honored  by  the 
could  because  of  lack  of  room  receive  only  70  girls  from 
aj^^^rof  240  who  successfully  passed  the  entrance  examinations. 

Evangelistic  Schcc! — Oh,  how  much  it  needs  our  daughters, 


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Woutan’a  iSnarfc  of  iHtastmia  of  tlj?  3lnlrruir 


-'fer'HP!;-mn:i;«ini!!iim:!!;iimmnn!nni;:ii!rjni!ni!n3ii!;a!ini!!mi;rcnntn!irainnHniBimiimH 


to  live  among  those  students,  to  give  to  them  the  high  ideals  and  the 
training  which  will  send  them  out  to  work  with  pastors  and  with  young 
people. 

Not  since  1916  has  the  money  been  anywhere  near  adequate  to  the 
demand  and  various  things  have  been  dropped  to  make  ends  meet  if 
possible. 

Service  is  three  times  what  it  was  two  years  ago — board  almost 
doubled. 

Taxes  increased  60  per  cent. 

The  graduate  conference  can  be  held  only  once  in  five  years 
where  it  should  be  once  in  two  years. 

The  Christians  of  Japan,  (our  daughters,  and  the  Japanese)  are  on 
their  knees  today,  this  very  hour,  praying  Almighty  God  to  stir  our 
hearts  and  send  aid  now. 

If  all  the  Reconstruction  Goal  of  $75,000  is  reached  in  full — a part 

will  reach  Japan.  She  waits  for  us. 

That  great  nation  of  the  East  of  whom  Napoleon  said,  “When 
China  wakes  she  will  move  the  world,”  is  waking  now. 

She  threw  off  her  curse  of  opium,  is  unbinding  the 

| feet  of  her  women,  struggles  to  educate  her  vast  popu- 

China  1 lation,  sends  her  most  promising  students  abroad, 
| | changes  her  form  of  government,  boycotts  the  in- 

miiiiraraimiiHiniiuuniiHniiiuumniKiiHiaiinmiiHuiim  vaders,  and  rouses  her  young  to  patriotism. 

And  still  many  a one  today  declares  her  only  hope  is  to  live  out 
the  Golden  Rule  of  Christ. 

Today  the  Union  College  for  Women  in  Peking  lacks  only  one 
thing — buildings  and  equipment  to  accommodate  many  times  the  num- 
ber of  girls  they  now  have,  girls  who  would  go  to  far  Yun-Nan  to  carry 
education,  ideals  of  home,  no  end  of  good,  if  only  money  could  be 
found  to  help. 

In  Shaowu  one  of  the  teachers  in  the  Girls’  School,  she  who  never 
spared  herself,  who  was  worth  four  missionaries,  died  from  overwork 
because  no  one  i3  trained  to  help. 

Eighty  per  cent  of  the  children  die  in  infancy  for  lack  of  doctors 
and  nurses. 

And  every  dollar  gold  we  send  only  buys  now  but  75  cents  silver. 

And  China  looks  to  us  today — her  friend — for  help. 

THE  WORLD  LOOKS  DARK— BUT  COURAGE  ALL. 


|"'""n — | The  Lord  does  reign.  We  look  from  east  to  west 

and  see  its  need — the  black,  and  yellow,  brown  and 
white,  all  children  of  the  ONE  who  gave  His  life  for 


Courage 


iiiiiiniii;iiiii;:iiiiiiiiii!iiiiii:iiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 


them. 


Our  daughters  will  work  hard  and  we  will  give 

$126,000 $75,000 

AND  MAY  ITS  BLESSING  REACH  TO  ALL  WHO 
THE  WORLD  AROUND. 

January,  1920. 

WOMAN’S  BOARD  OP  MISSIONS  OP  THE  INTERIOR 
(Congregational) 

19  South  La  Salle  Street.  Room  131$ 

Chicago 


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